Here was my take on the debate last night, as a looney lefty [View all]

[Hydra]

1. Mitt Romney lost almost immediately- the first time he talked over Jim L and the President. That was before he casually lied about everything and lost control several times just to make it a complete loss.

I'm sure his base loved it, but I saw it as yet a new low in our country- we can't even have a PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE without a dirty fight starting.

2. President Obama was lucky to have such a lousy opponent, because while he did an admirable job of keeping to the facts and even effectively pushing back occasionally, he let Mitt beat on him about the Green jobs and let Mitt make the Republican platform (of insanity) look reasonable.

3. President Obama is greatly handicapped both in message and in substance because he believes in many of the fallacies Mitt Romney and the Republicans are trying to sell.

This last point troubles me the most. I feel like the President is like the Chicago School of Economics, constantly clinging to the idea that if they just continue to hold to their ideology in the face of all facts, that Capitalism will indeed be proven to be some sort of perfect divinity made flesh.

Why does this bother me? Because I'm not worried that Romney the thief, liar and overall Republican will win this race. If he does, it will be by diebold or treason, and we didn't stop the last 4 Republicans who did that. No, I'm worried that we'll stay the course on the idea that Gov't is not the solution, even when all the evidence says the opposite is true.

4. Obama clearly won by any sane metric, but we didn't see incumbent Senator Obama's triumphant return. I think that's what most of us were secretly hoping for.